Viet Election Secret

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363-04766
Title
Viet Election Secret
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Article (fragment) published in the New York Herald Tribune about the US's decision to pressure Saigon into democratic elections, page 1
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VIET ELECTION SECRET
By Beverly Deepe
A Special Correspondent
[March 7
1966 P1]
SAIGON.
A secret decision was made at last month's Honolulu con-
ference to try to speed up South Viet Nam's elections for a
national legislative body-previously announced for late 1967-
to "early 1967 or as soon as possible," reliable sources indicate.
The sources attributed the decision to substantial Amer-
ican pressure-including he
desire of President Johnson
himself-to speed up the
vote.
Vietnamese observers view
the action as an index of
the desire of the Johnson
administration to attempt to
negotiate a peace settlement
here by offering substantial
concessions to the Hanoi
regime through rearranging
the Saigon political and
governmental structure.
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky,
before the conference, had.
announced the late 1967 time-
table, which would give the
government almost two years
to pacify large blocs of the
rural population now under
some Communist control.
Observers here doubt the
anti-Communist South Viet-
namese government will se-
cure and control a safe pro-
portion of the population by
the earlier dates.
The anti-Communist gen-
erals, who actually hold the
reins of power in South Viet
Nam, are considered to be re-
luctant to support the speed-
up, but have little alternative
except to do so.
METHODS
Observers believe there are
two distinct approaches to ne-
gotiation. The first is a formal,
"around the table," type of in-
ternational conference, such
as the 14-nation Geneva con-
ference which ended the
French Indochina war in 1954.
The second is an "under-the-
table" agreement made by re-
arranging the power structure
within the Saigon political
arena.
Date
1966, Mar. 7
Subject
Honolulu Conference (1966 : Honolulu, Hawaii); Vietnam (Republic)--Politics and government; Vietnam--Foreign relations--United States; Elections
Location
Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates
10.8231; 106.6311
Container
B4, F6
Format
newspaper clippings
Collection Number
MS 363
Collection Title
Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator
Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher
Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries
Language
English